FAQ

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HOW DOES IMRADIO WORK?

This is a radio station by musicians for musicians. Any Artist/Band can upload their original songs totally free to IMRadio for airplay. The audience can listen free of charges.

WHY PERFORM ON IMRADIO?

We give all artists airplay to a worldwide audience. While your songs are playing, the audience will always be given a link to your Profile and a chance to listen to more of your music, pick up your widget, download and buy your merchandise directly from YOU. We provide you totally free airplay while keeping you in total control of your music and revenues!

WHY LISTEN TO IMRADIO?

You can hear, on our radio station, the best freshly available original music by today's musicians, in over 70 genres, from over 75 Countries, all day free.

HOW DO I REGISTER ON IMRADIO?

Choose the Register option in the top right hand corner of every screen to sign up as either a Listener or Artist. When you register, you get a profile you can personalize with your information. You will need a profile to communicate with others on IMRadio.

HOW DO I USE MY PROFILE?

From your profile, you can communicate with fans, musicians and music industry executives by posting messages and rate/review songs.

HOW DO I KNOW IF MY PROFILE HAS BEEN SEEN?

In the Information Box on your profile, you will see a number of how many viewers you have had since August 13, 2009. You are not able to tell exactly who viewed your profile.

HOW DO I GET VIEWERS TO MY PROFILE?

After hearing your songs in IMRadio's radio rotation, interested users will click on your photo in the player, which brings them to your profile. You can bring your current fans into IMRadio. You can also become fans of other IMRadio users to bring them to your profile and listen to your music. Ask your fans to rate/review your songs.

WHO CAN UPLOAD SONGS?

Anyone with a original song that is 9 minutes or less, and under 50 MB. Songs must be original and owned, written, performed by the artist without using any covers or samples.

HOW DO YOU UPLOAD SONGS?

While in the Add Song function, use the Browse button to select and upload your song in either MP3, WMA, WAV, or FLV format. For the best sound quality it's recommended you try to upload your song in the MP3 (320 KBPS) format. It will take a few days to get your song into IMRadio's rotation.

ORDER OF SONGS ON AN ARTIST'S PROFILE.

If more than one song is uploaded in a single Song Upload transaction, the smallest of those songs files will appear first on an artist's profile. In order to ensure the song order an artist prefers, each song needs to be uploaded individually. The first song uploaded will be at the top of the artist's profile, and the other songs will appear below it as they are uploaded.

WHY ARE THERE TWO GENRE FIELDS ON THE UPLOAD SONG SCREEN?

The first genre field has a dropdown box with today's valid genre choices (it is a required field). The second genre field is open text where you can type in a genre not found on our dropdown box (this is not a required field). The second field helps us recognize any new genres not currently in our dropdown box.

WHEN DOES A SONG PLAY?

Artists can see when their songs are playing from the Song Schedule function in their Backstage. Listeners can view today's radio schedule from the Schedule tab. Every day there is an online schedule showing all the songs that will be aired that day. The schedule updates daily at midnight CST.

ARE IMRADIO AIRPLAYS IMPORTANT?

YES, keep track of all the radio airplay you get here on IMRadio, so you can pass those impressive stats on to other terrestrial/traditional (FM) radio stations and record labels. You can see how many times your songs have been aired by logging into your IMRadio profile, clicking on Backstage, and then clicking on Edit Songs.

WHY ISN'T MY LOCATION AND/OR GENRE SHOWING UP IN THE DROPDOWN BOXES?

It takes a significant amount of uploaded songs with the same Location or Genre in order to create its own station (then it will show up in the dropdown boxes). Make sure you let all your fellow artists know about IMRadio and upload their songs so IMRadio can get your Location/Genre showing up in the drop-down box as its own separate station.

TWO GENRE FIELDS ON THE UPLOAD SONG SCREEN?

The first genre field has a dropdown box with today's valid genre choices (it's a required field). The second genre field is open text where you can type in a genre not found on our dropdown box (this is not a required field), which helps us recognize any new genres not currently in our dropdown box.

HOW DO I DELETE A SONG?

Artists can delete songs from their Edit Songs section in their Backstage. It will take a few days for the song to be removed from the schedule.

RATING SONGS

Any registered IMRadio user can Rate/Review any song from either the main player or the artist's profile. You can only Rate/Review a song once.

HOW DO I UPLOAD A VIDEO?

When you are logged into your IMRadio profile, you will see a Share YouTube Video button in the Video section of your profile. Click on the Share YouTube Video button and you can easily copy and paste a YouTube URL into IMRadio. No cover song music videos or samples allowed.

If your music video is not on YouTube, you may upload video files any of the following supported formats: avi, mp4, 3gp, psp, mpeg, mpegts, dvd, flv, svcd, vcd, vob, asf, mov, rm, mjepg, mpeg2video, 3g2, mp3, and ogg.
Once your video is uploaded, our server will convert it to the proper format for you. This may take a few minutes, so you may not see your video in your profile right away. Once the video is converted, and it will automatically show up in your profile.

WHAT IS THE FORUM?

This is a place where you post comments on many topics with other musicians and fans. Enjoy such Forum topics as: Ask the Promoter, IMRadio Stuff, Song Writing, Your Next Show, and many more.